Variation and covariation of skulls and teeth: Modern carnivores and the interpretation of fossil mammals

Paleobiology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 508-526

  Dayan, Tamar ^a   Wool, David ^a   Simberloff, Daniel ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; DENTITION; MAMMAL; MORPHOLOGY; SKULL; TOOTH;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036764582     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373(2002)028<0508:VACOSA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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